What Types of Exercise Will Help Me Build Long, Lean Muscle?

What Types of Exercise Will Help Me Build Long, Lean Muscle? (0:23)

Some exercises that help build long, lean muscles include walking, dancing, and most importantly, resistance training. In this video, integrative medicine specialist Robin Miller, MD, explains why strength training is essential for building muscle.

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You can get long lean muscle by walking, dancing but in order to have strong muscles so that you can do the walking and dancing you also need to do strength training and that's really important so resistance training a couple of times a week will also help you to build long lean muscles.